TLC of May 20 has just arrived and as always is of interest. However, it might be noted that Bishop Hollingworth, formerly Archbishop of Brisbane, as the new governor general of Australia, will not be "representative of the British Commonwealth" but representative of Queen Elizabeth II in her distinctive role as Queen of Australia (different from her role, for instance, as Queen of New Zealand or Canada).

And while one applauds Bishop Griswold's commendation of the church's "vast, faithful middle," a message much needed today, I was surprised to see a reference in the same issue to the Anglican Church being "created during the Reformation" - perhaps a slip of the pen. Our church, though for long part of the wider Western Church and in communion with Rome, was described as the "ecclesia Angliae" (i.e., Church of England), for example, in St. Anselm, and indeed the other name "ecclesia Anglicana" (English church) was usually translated as Church of England in the later Middle Ages. The English form "chirche of Engelond" was used from the 14th century. Our church was "created" a thousand years before the Reformation but certainly it is from the 16th century that it can be described as based on scripture, reason and tradition - a broad church that is evangelical, liberal and catholic.

(The Rev.) John Bunyan

Campbelltown, Australia